Cotton packing or baling device.



P. K. RICHARDSON.

COTTON PACKING 0R BALlNG DEVICE.

APPLICATION HLED Nov. 5. |914.

1,154,355. Patented Sept. 28, 1915.

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P. K. RICHARDSON.

COTTON PACKING 0R BALING DEVICE.

5 APPLlcAloN FILED Nov. 5. 1914.

PatentedSept.28, 1915.

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@9H/nanou l W www PALEY KNOX RICHARDSON, 0F MANGUM, OKLAHOMA.

COTTON PACKING 0R BALING DEVCE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept.28, 1915.

Application filed November 5, 1914. v Serial No. 870,358.

To all lwhom 'it may concern l Be it known that I, PALEY KNOX RICHARD- soN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mangum, in the county of Greer and State of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and useful lniprovements in Cotton Packing or Baling Devices; and 1 do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and vexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to means for packing cotton in receptacles and my object is to provide a combined automatically and manually operated stop mechanism for the packing device. Y

A further object of this invention is to provide means to dispose packing boxes below' and in registration with the packing mechanism, one at a time.

A still further object of this invention is to provide an arrangement whereby damp bolls of cotton or dry bolls of cotton or picked cotton can be conveniently packed in this device. y

Other objects of this inyention will be hereinafter set forth in the specifications and pointed out in the claims.

Similar' characters of reference refer to similarl parts throughout the specifications and drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a side elevation Vof this Ydevice in assembled formation showing one form of valve operation to drive the piston down and up, Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof, and Fig. 3 is an elevation of a modified form of valve operating mechanism. y

1n Fig. 1 of the drawings, 1 is the base of the frame work having vertical standards 2 and 3 rising at each end thereof and supkon the vertically porting the horizontal beams 4 and 5 which in turn are united by cross beams 6. The subflooring 8 is secured to the base 1, providing a circular depression in which is rotatively mounted the table 9, said table being pivoted mounted shaft 10 which is mounted in one of the cross beams G. plurality of packing boxes 11 of any preferred form of construction are so positione upon this rotating table that they will be Asuccessively brought beneath the plunger. 12

as the table is rotated, said plunger being the cotton within the boxes. A plurality of shaft bearings 13 are mounted upon a portion of the cross beams G in which is rotatably mounted a driving siaft 14, said driving shaft being operated from any one of a plurality-of sprocket wheels, the large sprocket wheel 15 being used to operate the device when packing damp bolls, the second size sprocket 1G for dry bolls, and the small sprocket 17 to pack picked cotton, in accordance with the speed that is necessary to conveniently operate the packing plunger according to the various conditions of the cotton. The female clutch member 13 is mounted on the inner end of the driving shaft 14 and is'adapted to receive the male member' 19 of a clutch device to drive the operating shaft 2O mounted in suitable bearings 21 upon another portion of the cross beams 6. A cog wheel 22 is mounted upon the end of the operating shaft 2O and is adapted to mesh with the cog gear 23 carried b v a shaft 25, which shaft is rotatably mounted in bearings 21 which are in turn mounted upon the extension of two of the cross beams G, as plainly shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings. A segmental rack gear 24 is mounted upon the shaft 25 adjacent the end opposite to that upon which the cog gear 23 is mounted and which is operated by said shaft. The segmental gear 24 is adapted to mesh with the pinion 2G mounted upon a shafting 27, said shafting having at one end thereof a pitman arm 2S which is connected to and adapted to operate a lever 29 by means of a pivoted link connection 30. The lever 29 is mounted upon a shaft 31 vertically positioned within the frame work 32 carried by two of the beams 6, said shaft having at its opposite end a second lever arm 33 connected to a reach rod 34. The opposite end of the reach rod 34 is connected to one arm of a bell crank lever 35 suitably pivoted as at 36 to the projection 37 rising from the top of the Vcylii'ider head 38. The opposite arm of the Abell crank lever 35 is connected to the pivoted link 39 which operates a slide valve 40 to alternately allow the passage ofl steam above and below the piston head 41 operating within the cylinder 42 lto drive or raise the packing plunger `12,

previously noted.

Under certain circumstances of construction, the valve arrangement shown in Fig. 3 is necessary, said arrangement comprising the feed pipe 43 communicating with the top portion of the cylinder 42 and the feed pipe 44 connected with he bottom portion of the cylinder, said feed pipes running from a rotary valve 45 which receives steam from a suitable supply pipe 46. In this instance an operating lever 47 is connected to the link vthe lever l of 'cotton ,being y operates the driving shaft 14 .the ,packing .plunger 12. v hasbeen suita kboxes 11., the

30 previously noted, to operate a two-way valve 48 and alternately supply steam to either the pipe 43 or 44 to raise or lower the packing plunger 12. In this arrangement `when itis desired to stopthe operation of t 1e engine, a suitable cut-ofi valve 49 is positioned in the supply pipe 46. A suitable lever 50 is pivoted at 51 to the cross beam 4, the upper end of which is formed into a yoke member 52 which yoke is adapted to engage the channel 53 formed in the male member 19 of the clutch. The opposite end vof the lever 50 has a suitable handleV 54 which may be grasped to swing the lever upon its pivot to move the clutch member 19 into orout of engagement with the clutch member 16 to Sta-rt or stop the driving operation ofthe piston head, and said lever is adapted to be locked in open' position by means of a segmental rack 55 having a notch therein toreceive thev end of the locking bolt 5,6 mounted upon the lever 50 and operated by'means of a suitable latch 57 connected thereto by means of a rod 58 said latch being pivotally attachedto the handle 54. An inclined extension 59 is formed upon one portion ofthe lever 50 and is adapted to contact with an inclined projection '60 suitably. mounted as at 61` to the top `o f each of the packing boxes 11 so that should the operator fail to manually yoperate K to disengage the clutch 19 from the clutch 18, the inclined projection 60 will engage the inclined 'extension 59 of the lever vandswing the lever to disengage the clutch automatically when the table is rotated to position the next succeeding packing box below the plunger.

Y. In operation, power applied Ito one of the sprockets 15, 16 or 17, as previously described, depending upon the class and grade packed in the boxes which ating shaft 20 by means of the clutch arwheel 23 which in turn rotates the shaft 25 ycarryingthe segmental 'gear 24. rllphe continued rotation of 'the shaft 25 and segmental gear 24 brings the same into mesh with the pinion .26 and rotates said pinion one complete revolution, this action operatrangement 18 and 19. This rotates the gear 'i ing the valve to alternately feed steam to either the top or the lower portion of the cylinder 42 to lower or raise the 4piston yto After the cotton ly packed within the packing lever 50 is operated -to throw -outJ- the clutch to .stop the operati-on o-f the v device pending the transfer Kof a fresh packlng box beneath lthe packing plunger 12, the table 9 carrying thepacking'boxes being roand the operv tated either by hand or by suitable machinery, as desired. y 4

Should the operator fail to swing the lever 50 until the locking bolt 56 is engaged with the notch in the segmental rack 55 previous to rotating the table 9, the rotation of said table will engage the inclined projection on the packing boxes with the inclined extension on the lever, the continued rotation vof the table causing the lever to swing until the locking bolt is engaged with the'notch in Ythe rack, thus di'sengaging the clutch 19 from the clutch 18 and stopping the opera-` tion of the plunger `12 untilsuch time as the next succeeding packing box is properly positioned below the plunger. Y

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Iatent, is

1. A cotton packing device comprisinga frame, a rotatingtable mounted in said a plurality of packing boxes carried table, a plunger to pack cotton within a piston in the cylin- 2. A cot-ton packingdevice comprising a V rotating table, thereon, 'each packing boxhaving a lever operating attachment, a packing plunger to successively pack cotton in said packing boxes, an operating cylinder for said plunger, a valve mechanism to alternately feed steam to the upper and'lowerv parts of the cylinder t-o operateV said packing plunger,

K driving mechanism connected to said valve means, and a lever connected to said driving mechanism adapted to be operated by said attachments on said packing boxes to automatically stop said packing mechanism.

3. A cotton packing device comprising a frame, a two .part drivin-g shaft mounted on the upper por-.tion of said frame, a clutch mechanism coperating therewith, a plurality of variable sized sprockets carried by Y yone of said parts to provide a variable speed for said shaft, a gear on the other of .said parts, ing with the mental gear shaft, a cog intermittently fgear, a packing plungeryan operating Vcylinder for said plunger, and means connected to said third shaft to ternately into the ends Vgear ofthe 4first shaft, a segon said second shaft, athird wheel thereon adapted to be .of said cylinder to raise and lower said plunger.

4. A cotton packing devicecomprising the combination with Ya rotating table', a pluintroduce steam Y ala plurality of packing boxes second shaft, a gear thereon mesh- I lrotated by saidv segmental rality of packing boxes carried thereby, a plunger to pack cotton into said boxes, an operating cylinder for the plunger, and a valve mechanism intermittently admitting steam to the upper and lower end of the cylinder, of a two part shaft, a clutch mechanism connecting said parts, a throw 0H lever for said clutch, means carried by the packing boxes to operate said lever when the l0 table is rotated, means coperating with said shaft for intermittently operating said valve mechanism and a plurality of variable sized driving sprockets on said shaft.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of l5 two subscribing witnesses.

PALEY KNOX RICHARDSON.

vVitnessesz L. A. MoCoLLrsTER, W. M. FRITSCHE.

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